Fitness Federation

[Fei-Hung]

I started going gym about 3.5 months ago. I had not been to the gym or done anything exercise related for 5 years (since I got married).

Before I marriage I was 5ft7, and weight at the very most 8stone. Nothing I would do up to then would help me put on weight.

When I started going to the gym again I was 5ft6, almost 12 stone and had my hand out of a cast for about 1 month (hand was still healing).

I've only lost. 5stone but I've noticed I've been replacing fat with muscle. More importantly I'm 5ft8 now. Some how I shrank and after gym I grew an inch. Guy at gym said doing certain exercises like deadlifts and posture improving could have caused it.

Anyhu, I've never done leg work outs before, this has been my first time and I love it. My issue is I feel a lot of pressure on my lower back when doing squats. On a good day I'll squat about 80kg. On a bad day like today I just about managed to do 70kg.

I also seem to have reached a point doing flat chest where I can't lift more than 50kg on my chest and even then I struggle. I think it is because I don't do much freeweights on my arms. I struggle really badly as the hand I broke still is healing and bending my wrist a certain way or moving it with a lot of weight in certain directions causes the area where I had a broken bones to swell up.

Any recommendations?!